Trigen Colorado Steam Plant

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Navbar-CoalPlants}} Trigen Colorado Steam & Electric Plant is a coal-fired power station that provides power to Coors' Golden beer brewing facility. It was acquired in 1995 by Trigen-Nations Energy, a collaboration between Trigen Energy Corporation and Nations Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tucson Electric Power Company. Trigen is subsidiary of Veolia Energy North America.

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Plant Data

• Owner: Trigen-Nations Energy Company
• Parent Company: Veolia
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 35.0 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 7.5 MW (1976), 7.5 MW (1977), 20.0 MW (1983)
• Location: 25 10th St., Golden, CO 80401
• GPS Coordinates: 39.760958, -105.215096
• Electricity Production: 298,201 MWh (2005)
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 463,225 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 2,342 tons (2002)
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 15.71 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 1,692 tons (2002)
• Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

Sources

• Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
• Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
• NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
• AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Colorado and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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